shvetsov2005
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:26 am Post subject: Jerom K Jerom |
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"I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to
him now. "What a doctor wants," I said, "is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each." So I went straight up and saw him, and he said:
"Well, what's the matter with you?"
I said:
"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had
finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me."
-"Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had
finished" Could you explain why did they put "had" in here?
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